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THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
SOUTIfORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1965
5t A <X>PY
Outstanding Success A
Big Doings For The Fourth
Everything went according to
schedule for the big Fourth of
July calebration in Southport dur
ing the past weekend as thousands
of visitors joined with local citi
zens in a varied program of fun
and excitement.
There was one slight deviation
from the announced program.
The sky diving program slated
for Saturday afternoon was call
ed off when the breeze came up
end a reconnaissance flight by
the daredevils led to the deci
sion not to jump.
Otherwise there were very few
hitches in a three-day entertain
ment menu that started with an
art show and wound up with a
donkey baseball game. In be
tween there was a Heritage
House, Mobile Museum Display,
Sidewalk Art Show, gala parade,
musical concert, a giant helicop
ter on display, and a spectacular
fireworks show.
On Saturday night the South
port Jaycees gave their boat
away, the winner being Mrs. Jean
Johnson of Wilmington. Other
prizes were given to members
of one of the largest crowds
ever assembled here.
At Heritage House
DIFFERENT—Articles of interest from out of the past were featured in the
Heritage House sponsored by the Southport Woman's Club 'here during the past
weekend. Mrs. Laura Roughton, Mrs.James M. Harper, Jr., and Mrs. Ed Royal
are shown here dressed in period costume as they admire some of the interesting
heirlooms exhibited.
Eastern Star
District Meet
On Saturday
Live Oak Chapter No. 179,
O. E.S., will play host to the Schc ol
of Instruction of the Fourth Dis
trict, Grand Chapter of North
Carolina, Order of the Eastern
Star, at 2 o’clock Saturday after
noon at the Community Building
in Southport at which time Mrs.
Lucy Rhodes Duncan of Smith
field, Worthy Grand Matron of
the Grand Chapter of North Caro
lina, will make her grand visita
tion accompanied by Jack Orr
Howard of Raleigh, Worthy Grand
Patron. Many other Officers and
Past Grand Officers of North
Carolina as well as other juris
dictions are expected to attend, as
are several District Deputy
Grand Matrons and Patrons from
other districts.
The fourth district comprises
chapters in Southport, Wil
mington, Burgaw, Atkinson,
Bolton, Whiteville, Elizabeth
town, Chadbourn, Fair Bluff and
Tabor City. Mrs. Sophie Floyd
of Atkinson Chapter is the Dis
trict Deputy Grand Matron of the
Fourth District and Preston
Moseley of Wilmington is the
District Deputy Grand Patron.
The officers of Live Oak
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RECEPTION SUNDAY
A reception will be held in
the Parish House of St. Philips
Episcopal Church from 3 to 5
p. m. on Sunday, July 11th, to
welcome the new minister, Rev
erend Fred Fordham and his
family.
BRING OWN CHINA
All members and guests who
attend the meeting of the South
port Woman’s Club on Thursday
night at 8 o’clock at the Com
munity Building are asked to
bring an interesting piece of
china to show and tell about.
The meeting is on table decora
tions and is under the direction
of Mrs. w. S. Norman.
farm bureau meet
All area membership drive
chairmen of the Brunswick
County Farm Breau are urged
by President Ira L. Chadwick to
attend the July 20 meeting at 8
p. m. at the Agricultural Exten
sion Office in Supply. “Come and
•ng all your co-workers. Let
s be the biggest drive aver,”
i Chadwick.
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Golf Tournament
Here In October
The First Annual North Caro
lina Open will be held at the
Oak Island Country Club Oc
tober 6-8 under the co-spon
sorship of the North Carolina
Professional Golfers Associa
tion and the Oak Island Club.
Robert H. (Bob) Smith is the
professional at the host club and
Is looking forward to having be
tween 140 and 150 professionals
and amateurs participate in the
fall event. Though there has been
for many years aCarolinas Open,
participated in by both North
and South Carolina Golfers, this
is the first time there has been
an open competition for North
Carolinians only.
Aubrey Apple of Greensboro
is president of the NCPGA and
Dave Forbis of Burlington is
tournament chairman. They have
plans well underway for securing
the outstanding pros and ama
teurs of the area for the event.
Local businesses are being
asked to underwrite the ex
penses of the tournament, the
sponsor’s share being $2,000.
Because of the fact that the
tournament will bring many per
sons into the area at a time
when the beach season is past,
it is thought that the local
businesses will be glad to par
ticipate.
Efforts are being made by
the Oak Island pro and the men
who work on the greens and
fairways to have the entire eight
een holes in top condition by
fall. The front nine has been in
operation for only one year, but
the last few bare spots in the
fairways are rapidly disappear
ing. Sodding in some of the more
difficult spots will be done im
mediately so that all will be
in readiness for the first really
important event in the history of
this unique seaside course.
New Episcopal
Minister Here
The Rev. Frederick J. Ford
ham and his family have moved
to Southport where he has assum
ed duties as rector of St. Philips
Episcopal Church.
He was ordained to thediacon
ate on June 29 by Bishop Thomas
H. Wright and assigned as min
ister-ln-charge of St. Philip’s
Church, serving also St. James’
Church, Shallotte and All-Souls
Church, Northwest.
Fordham is a native of Kins
l°h and attended the public
schools there. He is a graduate
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ASHLEY MURPHY
Murphy Given
Highway Post
Ashley Murphy, who has repre
sented Pender county during
seven sessions of the North Caro
lina General Assembly, was
named Thursday by Governor
Dan K. Moore to serve as high
way commissioner for the third
division.
This was a position Brunswick
county citizens were pushing
Representative Odell Williamson
for.
Murphy says that one of his
chief concerns during his four
year tenure will be for a four
lane east-west highway.
Improvements to the state**
roads generally during the
next four years will depend
much on the attitude of the
voters when the proposed
$300 million highway bond is
sue faces its test at the polls
in November, Murphy indi
cated.
“What we are facing in
needed road improvement,
primarily, is a matter of
money,” he pointed out. “This
bond issue is very impor
tant and must pass if we
are to get these improve
ments."
The legislator and commis
sioner said he will open an
Office in Wilmington immedi
ately and head up the six
county division from there.
The division embraces New
Hanover, Brunswick, Duplin,
Pender, Onslow and Sampson
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At 11 a. m. the Indepftlence
Day parade, led by. polite, city
and county officials, a® the
Second Division Marine Band,
marched from Howe I Street
down Moore Street.
The Marine Band pulifcd out
of the parade at the corner the
two streets and stood ini form*
tion beating time with drums
and cymbals as the rest of the
parade marched by.
The parade included almost a
dozen floats, a couple of an
tique cars, horses, and fire
trucks.
Sightseers, under warm and
sunny skies, attended the side
walk art show, Heritage House,
the mobile Museum of History
and the Southport Arts Festival.
Two purchase awards were
made Sunday afternoon to the
first place winners of the oil
and graphics divisions of t h e
Southport Arts Festival.
Mark Lynch of Wrightsville
Beach received the $175 pur
chase award in oils for hi*
work entitled “Woman Suffrage
League.”
“Polarization No. 2,” a work
in graphics by L. V. Huggins
of Chapel Hill received the
$75 purchase awards.
. The purchase of the two
works for the'town’s municipal
art collection was made possible
through donations.
“We’ve had people from all
over the state here today.’’
Southport Mayor Eugene B.
Tomlinson said Saturday. “1
think with the encouragement
we’ve had, we can plan to en
large the scope of our celebra
tion for next year."
Board Members
Talk Problems
The Brunswick County Board
of Bdunailaa mot in staacial sasr
slen on June Z9, ana m* rollowv'
ing letters from the Shallotte
School Committee were read to
the Board by Chairman James
Thompson:
“We request that at your next
meeting we could meet with the
county Board of Education and
the Superintendent so that we may
obtain information regarding our
jurisdiction. The chairman and
secretary will attend and if pos
sible other members of the com
mittee.
Please let us know when your
next meeting will be.”
A second letter read:
“At our Shallotte School Com
mittee meeting on June 15, it
was called to our attention that
Shallotte school has been pay
ing the bill for rent and heat
ing on the armory for two class
rooms. When the bill for the
last three months of this school
year was presented, we refused
to approve it for payment.
“We do not understand how it
became necessary for the local
school unit to assume the respon
sibility of providing class room
space or why or how it was done.
This responsibility clearly Is
the responsibility of the County
Board of Education. Therefore,
we are forwarding the present
bill from the National Guard
Armory tor payment and attach
ing a bill tor rent that has al
ready been paid this school year
tor refund.
We as a committee also wish
to go on record that we In the
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Mayor Accepts Purchase Award Paintings
WINNERS—Mayor E. B. Tomlinson is shown here
as he accepts two purchase award paintings from
Miss Alneta Dixon, representing the Southport Jun
ior Woman’s Olub, sponsors of the Arts Festival
here last weekend. The $175 purchase in oils went
to Mark Lynch of Wrightsville Beach for his “Wo
man Sufferage League”, below. “Polariznrion No.
2”, top, a work in graphics by L. V. Huggins of
Chapel Hill received the $75 purchase award. Both
pictures were presented to the City of Southport
for display at City Hall.
Tentative Budget 4. ,
Members of the board of com
missioners approved a tentative
budget for Brunswick county for
the next fiscal year and set the
rate at $1.60 per hundred, the
same as it was last year.
This action followed a joint
meeting with members of the
Brunswick County Board of Edu
cation, which had been pushing
for a 94-cent levy for school
purposes this year. The new
budget provides for 60-cents for
the schools as compared to the
5 5-cents levied for this purpose
last year.
One other significant change is
that the Resources Development
Commission will operate for the
next fiscal year on a budget based
upon a special 9-cent levy instead
of the 10-cents levied for this
purpose last year.
The new budget takes into ac
count and makes provision for all
salary increases that have been
granted, with $1.00 being levied
for general county expenses. This
is 5-cents less than was levied
last year.
The rate is based upon a $35
million valuation, up $2-million
from last year.
The budget will lay open for
twenty days, and unless there
are sustained objections it will
be adopted at a special meeting
of the board on July 28.
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Time And Tide
Members of the board of county commissioners has restored
the office of Home Demonstration Agent. This was the announce
ment in the issue of July 3, 1935, and Miss Marlon Smith had
been appointed to fill the job. Heavy rains finally came to the
assistance of foresters to help put an end to a blaze which had
burned over thousands of acres of Brunswick county woodlands.
An important business note was that plans for refunding the
county indebtedness had been approved by the commissioners.
Another headline heralded the passing of an era in the transporta
tion history of this section, for final approval had been given the
sale of the ferry John Knox, which had operated across the Cape
Fear river in Wilmington for 15 years prior to the building of the
bridge. Mrs. E. H. Cfanmer had been named a member of the
local school committee.
The week-long reunion by members of Trench Mortar Bat
talions B. and C„ who had trained at Ft. Caswell prior to World
War I, had reached a climax on Tuesday when the Democratic
nominee for governor, J. Melville Broughton, had delivered a
patriotic address at a picnic given in their honor by citizens of
Southport. This was two days before the Fourth of July, 1940,
and it made the prospects for any celebration of our Nation’s
birthday appear to be tame by comparison. Movie Star Randolph
Scott, who had been invited, had wired his regrets over his inability
to be here, but some of his buddies planned to write him about the
event.
There was news of another meal on the front page of this edi
tion. Guests of Churchill Bragaw at Orton had been served frog
legs for breakfast, alligator steak for lunch and roast rattlesnake
for dinner. Population figures released by the u. S. Census Bureau
(Continued On Page Four)
Robert C. Ruark
Dies In London
Private funeral services were
held in London last Friday for
Robert Ruark who died in Lon
don's Middlesex Hospital early
Thursday morning of internal
bleeding.
It was first announced that
his body would be cremated but
these plans were cancelled and
the remains were flown to Spain
for interment at Palamos, Spain,
where he maintained a home.
The Roman Catholic church
offered to conduct the services
even thoiigh the famous author
and traveller was not of that
faith. • •
Mr. Ruark, 49, was the son
of the late Robert Ruark, Sr.
and Mrs. Charlotte Ruark, the
latter a patient for the past
year or so in a Raleigh hospi
tal.
He was born in Wilmington,
attended Wilmington schools and
graduated at the University of
North Carolina in 1935, and
shortly afterwards began his
writing career with the Wash
ington, D. C. Daily News and
then reached national prominence
with the Scripps-Howard news
paper chain.
Mr. Ruark's father was at
one time Wilmington postmaster
and an accountant by profession.
A foster brother, David, was con
nected with the Wilmington
Chamber of Commerce in former
years.
His paternal grandfather Han
son Ruark was a former Regis
ter of Deeds of Brunswick county
and his maternal grandfather
Hawley Atkins was a Cape Fear
River pilot.
Mr. Ruark was a gifted writer
and his talent and typewriter car
ried him to many parts of the
world and won for him interna
tional acclaim.
After his father's death, Mrs.
Ruark lived in Southport and her
son, more in foreign lands than
at home, visited Southport on
numerous occasion, and he
never forgot those visits and
warm friendships made there.
Two of his books, “Poor No
More" and "The Old Man and
The Boy,” bore a Southport
flavor and residents who read
them recognized the characters
though their names were changed.
Mr. Ruark was divorced from
his wife, Virginia, and she was
reported to be in New York City
recuperating from an operation
and thus was unable to attend his
funeral.
ROBERT RUARK
CAP Members
Are Kept Busy
Three senior members and
four cadets from Boiling Spring
Squadron and other N. C. Units
attended the CAP Jamboree in
Manteo June 26-27.
Mayor W. W. Harvey was
host and declared Saturday and
Sunday as CAP weekend. CAP
members attended the Lost
Colony, visited the Wright Mu
seum and Wright Memorial,
which is the symbol of N. C.
Wing CAP.
Special church services were
held Sunday morning on the banks
of the Pamlico Sound and this was
also a part of CAP training.
The month of June was busy
tor CAP units in Brunswick Coun
ty. They worked in mission of
crashed aircraft near Bolivia
around the clock for three days
and were praised by FAA, CAB
and other officials tor a job well
done.
The Boiling Spring Squadron
served as Mission Control.
Cadets with their commander
1st Lt. Anson Lewis marched
in the fourth of July parade in
Southport Saturday.
Those who did not participate
in marching rode floats and
joined in other activities. Six
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McGougan To
Take Meares
Senate Post
State Sen. Carl Meares of Fair
Bluff will be sworn in tomorrow
in Raleigh as a member of the
State Highway Commission.
Sen. Meares will join 13 other
commissioners and Commission
Chairman Joe Hunt of Greens
boro in taking the oath of office
for a four-year term.
The appointment of the 15-man
group was announced late Thurs
day afternoon by Gov. Dan K.
Moore at a Capitol press con
ference.
As a highway commissioner,
Meares will represent the sixth
highway division composed of Co
lumbus, Bladen, Robeson, Cum
berland and Harnett counties.
The new highway commis
sioner, 57, represented Bruns
wick and Columbus counties in
the senate in 1963 and was re
elected for a second term last
year. On the second round, fol
lowing enlargement of the dis
trict, he represented Columbus,
Brunswick and Bladen counties.
In his second session, Meares
was appointed chairman of the
senate’s powerful roads com
mittee and was instrumental in
steering passage of the $300
million bond proposal for roads
in the senate. The bill is sched
uled for popular vote later this
year.
(Continued On Page Four)
Tide Table
Following Is the tide
table for Southport during
the week. These hours aan
approximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Cape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
TIDE TABUS
THURSDAY, JULY 8,
3:31 A. M. 9:56 A. M.
4:18 P. M. 10:42 P. M.
FRIDAY, JULY 9,
4:23 A. M. 10:46 A. M.
5:09 P. M. 11:33 P. M..
SATURDAY, JULY 10,
5:13 A. M. 11:33 A. M.
5:56 P. M.
SUNDAY. JULY 11,
5:59 A. M. 0:20 A. M.
6:40 P. M. 12:17 P. M.
MONDAY, JULY 12,
6:45 A. M. 1:05 A. M.
7:22 P. M. 1:01 P. M.
TUESDAY, JULY IS,
7:28 A. ML 1:46 A. M.
7:59 P. M. 1:42 P. M.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14,
8:07 A. M. 2:26 A. M.
8:37 P, M^ 2:21 P. M.